Often a symbol and reflection of French political power, the cathedral was vandalized through the French Revolution while Napoleon Bonaparte used it to reinstate monarchic rule with his coronation as Emperor.
And she had one of the tiaras which went missing, but she actually was terrified of wearing any of this monarchic jewellery because she was afraid of another revolution and she didn't want her head cut off.
Democracy is full of menace to all the finer hopes of civilization, and the revival, in not unnatural companionship with it, of monarchic power based on militarism, makes the prospect dubious enough.